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DRC: The new platform for growth in Africa
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... tropical zones, it's climate is also favourable for agribusiness development. "We want to resuscitate all agricultural sub-sectors from growing of food and cash crops; biofuels production, dairy farming ...
Wednesday, 17 March 2010
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Blood Brothers: the emergence of Brazil & Africa
(Newsletters)
... of industries across Africa, most notably mining, construction, engineering, and biofuels. Although, it looks like energy infrastructure and biofuels could define the progress and future between Africa ...
Wednesday, 24 February 2010
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Building Africa BRIC by BRIC: a new trade era
(Newsletters)
... offer high-end management consulting and advisory services to those countries. A similar model applies to Brazil and its biofuels technology and expertise exports. "What I like about the model is that ...
Wednesday, 04 November 2009
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Ghana to reach 1 mln tonnes cocoa output next season
(News/Economy)
Tags: [Cocoa, output target, Yaw Effah-Baafi, Ivory Coast, Cocobod, Jubile oilfield, biofuels, Ghana] ...
Wednesday, 01 September 2010
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EU, Brazil, Mozambique to sign bioenergy pact
(News/Energy)
Tags: [European Union, Brazil, biofuels, bioelectricity, African Union, Mozambique] ...
Tuesday, 13 July 2010
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Brazil to invest $300 mln in Mozambique infrastructure
(News/Infrastructure finance)
Tags: [Brazil, infrastructure, coal, biofuels, Vale, Mozambique] ...
Friday, 13 November 2009
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Ethiopia to develop biofuels to cut oil imports
(News/Environment)
Tags: [Biofuels, oil, Ephrem Hassen, Castor oil plants, jatropha, palm oil, plants, Ethiopia] ...
Monday, 02 November 2009
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Ghana to reach 1 mln tonnes cocoa output next season
(News/Economy)
... investments in maize, rice and cattle to reduce its reliance on imports. The country is also drafting a biofuels policy to ease investor access and Effah-Baafi said it was likely that it would be passed ...
Wednesday, 01 September 2010
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Biofuels could increase food production, says report
(News/Innovation)
... Tanzania and Zambia. It found there is enough land to allow a significant increase in the cultivation of sugar cane, sorghum and jatropha for biofuels without decreasing food production. But the report ...
Thursday, 29 July 2010
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EU, Brazil, Mozambique to sign bioenergy pact
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The EU and Brazil will sign an agreement with Mozambique this week to develop bioelectricity and biofuels projects, officials said on Monday. The agreement will be signed during a summit of European and ...
Tuesday, 13 July 2010
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Brazil's Lula ends final African tour with new deals
(News/International Relations)
... this trip. Lula landed in South Africa on Thursday after signing a defence accord with Equatorial Guinea, a biofuels agreement with Kenya, a deal on environmental cooperation with Tanzania and a series ...
Friday, 09 July 2010
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Tanzania, Brazil sign biofuel memo, talk debt relief
(News/International Relations)
... on the memorandum were immediately available. "We would like the Brazilian business community to invest in agriculture in Tanzania so that Tanzania can make biofuels in the same way that Brazil does," ...
Thursday, 08 July 2010
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Brazil to invest $300 mln in Mozambique infrastructure
(News/Infrastructure finance)
Brazil has plans to invest $300 million to develop infrastructure in Mozambique, where the Latin American giant is a big investor in coal and biofuels, a Mozambican newspaper reported Thursday. Brazil ...
Friday, 13 November 2009
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Ethiopia to develop biofuels to cut oil imports
(News/Environment)
Ethiopia wants to emulate Brazil by developing biofuels to cut its dependence on oil imports that cost the Horn of Africa nation more than a billion dollars a year, a government official said. Ethiopia ...
Monday, 02 November 2009
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Congo to use SA farmers to improve food production and skills
(News/Regional Integration)
... grows, while many see climate change and biofuels choking off the supply of arable land. While some development organisations have expressed concerns about an erosion of local farmers' rights by such ...
Thursday, 22 October 2009
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Congo to finalise South Africa land deal
(News/Trade and Investment)
... huge rewards in investing in farmland as the world population grows, while many see climate change and biofuels choking off the supply of arable land. Advocates of such land deals say they can act as ...
Wednesday, 23 September 2009
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China, others shove US in scramble for Africa
(News/Trade and Investment)
... of technology and know-how to boost food and biofuels production in Africa, where only a fraction of potential arable land is under cultivation. In June, Russian President Dmitry Medvedev flew in to ...
Thursday, 06 August 2009
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Court halts Kenya's proposed sugar project
(News/Environment)
A Kenyan High Court has temporarily blocked the development of a controversial $370 million sugar and biofuels project in the country's Tana River Delta. Mumias Sugar Company's intention to convert ...
Monday, 04 May 2009
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Mozambique's sugar cane to be used in making ethanol
(News/Trade and Investment)
... month, Mozambique drafted a strategy for the production of biofuels from the drought-resistant jatropha crop, which contains up to 40 percent oil. Jatropha is a non-food crop whose oil can be used to ...
Wednesday, 15 April 2009
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Biofuels largest market for southern Africa farming
(News/Energy)
Biofuels offer the biggest and most secure market for agriculture in southern Africa and could help ease the region's electricity woes in the future, a biofuels conference heard on Tuesday. Biofuels ...
Tuesday, 31 March 2009
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